List of bidding systems explained

This is a list of bidding systems used in contract bridge.^[1] Systems listed have either had an historical impact on the development of bidding in the game or have been or are currently being used at the national or international levels of competition.

Bidding systems are characterized as belonging to one of two broadly defined categories:

• natural bidding systems and
• artificial bidding systems.

Nevertheless, each contains elements of the other given the number and variety of treatments and conventions that have been developed by bridge bidding theorists.

Natural four card majors systems

• 5-4-4-3 System
• Acol
• Baron, an English system developed in the 1940s by Leo Baron, Adam Meredith and others.
• CAB, acronym for Two Clubs, Ace-asking and Blackwood
• Canapé
• Colonial Acol
• Culbertson
• EFOS, the Economical Forcing System developed by Eric Jannersten and others in Sweden in the sixties and seventies
• EHAA, acronym for Every Hand An Adventure
• Four Aces Team
• Goren
• Nordic
• Official System
• Reith One-over-one

Natural five card majors systems

• 2/1 game forcing
• 5-5-4-2 System
• 5-5-5-1 System
• Aces Scientific
• Alpha
• Bridge World Standard
• Eastern Scientific
• Five Card Majors
• Kaplan–Sheinwold
• Majeure Cinquième
• Romex
• Roth–Stone
• Standard American
• Western Scientific

Strong club systems

• Blue Club
• Black Club
• Canary Club
• Carrot Club
• French Club
• Hybrid Club
• Icelandic Precision
• Modified Italian Canape System (MICS), constructed and published by Ken Rexford
• Moscito
• Neapolitan Club
• Nottingham Club
• Power Precision Club
• Precision Club
• Schenken Big Club
• Simplified Precision
• Super Precision Club
• Ultimate Club
• Vanderbilt Club

Artificial one club systems

• Betangina
• Bissell
• Lea System
• Little Roman Club
• Polish Club
• Power Club
• Roman Club
• Swedish Club
• Trefle Squeeze
• Vienna

Strong diamond systems

• Big Diamond
• Magic Diamond
• Leghorn Diamond (Livorno)
• Mirror Diamond^[2]
• CS System

Weak opening systems

• Carrotti
• Delta
• No Name
• Regres
• Säffle Spade, a forcing Pass system

Artificial systems

• HUM Systems
• Little Major
• Marmic
• Relay Systems

Losing trick count systems

• Imperspicuity^[3]

Other systems

• Amsterdam Club
• Bangkok Club
• Churchill Style
• Crane
• Dutch Spade
• Kamikaze Notrump
• Monaco
• New South Wales
• Orange Club
• Pro System
• Simplified Club
• Sims
• Stone Age Acol With Pakistani Preempts
• Symmetric Relay
• Ultimate Club
• Walsh
• Winslow
• MMMMajor Bridge Bidding System^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Lindkvist, Magnus . Bridge, Classic and Modern Conventions . Arta Grafica . Bucharest, Romania . 2002 . 82178176 . 978-91-631-1099-3.
2. Web site: Mirror Diamond . 2020-03-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180815143913/http://www.strongdiamond.co.uk/ . 2018-08-15 . dead .
3. Book: Lynch, Sean. IMPERSPICUITY A Losing Trick Count Bridge Bidding System. Amazon. 2017. Kindle Book.
4. http://www.mmmmajor.org MMMMajor Bridge Bidding System